Neutron and proton cross-section evaluations for 232Th up to 150 MeV

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 177-194

  Ignatyuk, A V ^a   Lunev, V P ^a   Shubin, Yu N ^a   Gai, E V ^a   Titarenko, N N ^a   Gudowski, W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND POWER ENGINEERING   (Russian Federation)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FUSION REACTIONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROTONS;

ACCELERATOR-DRIVEN TRANSMUTATION SYSTEMS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS; DOUBLE-DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 0036823813     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/NSE02-A2298     Document Type: Article

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